Xfire

Amy found this neat little messenger service for gamers. It not only tells you when your friends are on and lets you message them, but also tells you what game they are playing. When you're in a game, you just hit scroll lock + X or whatever combination you set it to to bring up the message window in order to respond. Now I can finally keep a messenger up when I'm in a game. It's very handy, and I've learned over the past two days I'm very likely to miss something someone says to me in the game chat, but if they use Xfire to speak to me, I just hit my little keys and open the message to see what they said.